July 7th, 2008 cmsj
It’s been far too long, but here it is. Terminator 0.9.
As usual, head over to the home page to get all the links and information you need.
“So what’s new in this release?” Well let’s have a little look at the ChangeLog:
* Tab support
* Drag & Drop support
* Added support for ~/.config/terminator/config
* Switch the meanings of “horizontal” and “vertical” wrt splitting,
after extensive user feedback. Added context menu icons to try and
make the meaning clearer.
* Added keybindings for terms size and scrollbar manipulation. Thanks
Emmanuel Bretelle.
* Completely revamped config system which now transparently makes use
of gconf settings if they are available, falls back to sensible
defaults if not, and can be overridden entirely by ~/.config/terminator/config
* Support terminal zooming - now you can quickly hide all terminals apart
from one and either scale the fontsize or not.
* New application icon from Cory Kontros
* FreeBSD support (thanks to Thomas Hurst)
and a whole heap of bug fixes. Rock on!
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July 6th, 2008 cmsj
It’s taken us some time to get there, but as this page shows, we now have all of the bugs we want solved for 0.9, solved :D
The string freeze came way too late unfortunately, so I’m expecting we’ll want to do a 0.9.1 consisting of translations and fixes for any other bugs we figure out on the road to 1.0.
I now need to prepare all of the parts required for a release and push out a final RC build into our PPA and if all is well, 0.9 will be released very shortly! Please test it now and tell us if you hit any last minute problems.
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June 19th, 2008 cmsj
The list of bugs left for Terminator 0.9 is getting shorter (although I do keep failing to resist the temptation to add more) and so it’s time to try and get some wider testing.
Therefore, we’ve started uploading beta packages of 0.9 to our PPA. If you want to help test and you run Ubuntu, add this apt source:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome-terminator/ubuntu hardy main
If you have Terminator installed already from a package, it should then be offered to you as an upgrade, otherwise run:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install terminator
Please report any bugs you find to http://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator/ and please feel free to drop by #terminator on irc.freenode.net with any feedback!
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May 22nd, 2008 cmsj
After learning to use Meld and much chatting with chantra, I’m pleased to announce that we have landed his dnd-tabs branch into Terminator trunk.
What does all of that mean? Well, it means that we are a major step closer to being able to release 0.9 (which I have arbitrarily decided should be released only when we have tab support). That’s not to say that the release will be today or even in the next week - the branch landing may bring us all the infrastructure we need, but it needs some UI and behaviour love to make sure people don’t get lost in a maze of nested tabs (although this seems like such a powerful feature for some users that it may well be available as an option). This is the sort of thing I want to avoid out of the box:
One other nice thing we get from chantra’s branch is drag&drop re-ordering of terminals. You can kind of see it at work in the screenshot below - we highlight the area of the window where the terminal being dragged will end up (note that you can’t see the mouse pointer - it should be over the grey square with a drag icon of a terminal):
Thanks very much to chantra for his hard work on this, and indeed all of the team who have been rocking trunk for weeks now. We’ll get this polished and fixed ASAP and into a tarball/PPA and hopefully into things like Fedora and OpenSUSE :)
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February 27th, 2008 cmsj
luisbg has a blog posting of the very interesting looking flickbook, specifically a video which shows Terminator being used to launch the demo.
Woo!
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February 20th, 2008 cmsj
0.8 had a few annoying little bugs we decided to squash quickly, so without further ado, 0.8.1 is now out and on the homepage.
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February 15th, 2008 cmsj
This is a bugfix and feature and infrastructure release.
It should be a lot better than 0.7 in less focussed ways - e.g. icons, menu integration, better gconf support.
As usual hit up the Terminator home page for more.
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January 31st, 2008 cmsj
Some administrivia about my PPA builds of Terminator.
Firstly, and somewhat late (for which I apologise), the 0.7 release should be available shortly from the PPA. It’s just been accepted, so should be built for gutsy soon.
Secondly, as some people may have noticed, Terminator is now included in the Universe repository of hardy (for which I humbly thank all involved in making it happen).
When hardy is released, I will remove terminator from my PPA. at that point, we can consider publishing further gutsy packages in the Terminator team’s PPA, however, I’m not hugely keen on supporting old distro releases that I don’t run myself anymore.
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January 14th, 2008 cmsj
Yes that’s right, it’s time for another advance in the endless march of that most robotic of terminals, Terminator.
Head over to its homepage for all the links you need to ease yourself into the future!
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December 27th, 2007 cmsj
Thanks very much to Jorge Castro for pimping Terminator on his blog. I hope I get the flurry of patches he mentions!
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